Gun ban 'logic' leaves much to be desired

Here we go again. Susan Estrich's editorial in the Herald's May 23 issue set off my highly tuned poop-o-meter alarm for not necessarily true stuff.

One thing personal freedom lovers can count on is the never-ending lust Democrats have for gun control. They never seem to learn from past mistakes, including reinstating the utterly useless 1994 "assault weapons ban" that ended in 2004 and did nothing positive except misidentify and confuse semiautomatic firearms with real assault weapons. It did, however, provide legions of already clueless liberal pundits with a catchy new term for the nonexistent "semiautomatic assault rifle."

Does anyone doubt Mexican drug smugglers are really bad people? They kidnap, torture and kill real people, a lot of them. It's not like TV and movies where actors die pretend deaths this week and are back in another show next week. They've taken a page out of the radical Islamic playbook and not only kidnap and torture, but also saw off the heads and other appendages of their victims for their shock effect. Just as they use really bad people to murder real living people, they also use real assault weapons, not pretend, semiautomatic, American-made AR-15 lookalikes. To do so would be the equivalent of sending Hollywood actors on an actual military mission that Navy SEALs or Army Rangers would think hazardous. I suppose it's inevitable that there will always be a few liberals reading this who actually believe their favorite actor really does the things they see them do on the screen, but then they probably also believe all radical Muslims want is to co-exist, professional wrestling is for real and an AR-15 is an assault rifle.

These enemies of personal freedom, like the defunct Sara Brady handgun banners, assume the public to be so stupid as to forget the discredited statistics claimed as facts during the last attempt. Why must the Seacoast Sunday import and print nonresident Susan Estrich's column? Slow news day, perhaps, or the restart of the Obama gun ban? I realize President Obama made limiting gun ownership by reinstituting the ban on the sale of assault weapons one of his priorities, but he said quite a lot of things during the campaign, didn't he? According to Attorney General Eric Holder, the ban is not so much focused on preventing crime in the USA as it is to help out Mexico. Taking a freedom away from American citizens to support the most corrupt government on our border is just the type of twisted "logic" one would expect from the lunatic left. This is one "change" I would not like to see implemented. Advocates of all-encompassing big government control of every aspect of our lives believe, with a fundamentalist religious fervor, that only by removing every means of self protection can they bestow the fruits of their particular brand of "freedom" on us. I reject this and would suggest the Mexican president get his own corrupt house in order before he presumes to advise us on how to fix ours.

Dennis Karoleski

Portsmouth

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